We watched a BTN video on preferential voting because we are learning about voting and government. These are questions I answered.

1. You vote for who want first, second, third, fourth and so on. If your first choice gets knocked out your other votes go to the other parties.

2. To win the election you have to have won half the votes plus one.

3. The official name of someone who counts the votes is the counter.

4. North Korea doesn’t use preferential voting because they are a dictatorship.

5. Preferential voting is good because if you don’t get your first choice you can always get you second or third. Also if your party isn’t winning at the start they can still win.

6. Minor parties prefer preferential voting because they might not be as popular but they can still win by getting their votes when other parties get knocked out.

7. The purpose of a ‘how to vote’ card is to say if a party gets knocked out vote for this party second.

8. A polling booth is where you stand to mark your ballot paper to vote.

9. I voted for X factor once. We had to message our vote but it wasn the preferential as you only got 1 vote.

10. The Liberal party is one of Australia’s major parties and its leader is Malcolm Turnbull. The Labor party is another and its leader is Bill Shorten. The Australian Greens is the last major party and its leader is Richard Di Natale.

This is a pre test and we haven’t been taught anything yet so I’m not sure if my answers are correct.

Before Federation, Australia was divided into 6 separate… States

Which other country might have been part of Australia? England

Who was Henry Parkes? I don’t know anything about Henry Parkes

Why were the initial attempts to become a Federation rejected?Because of the gold rush

What role did Alfred Deakin play in becoming a Federation? I don’t know who Alfred Deakin is or what he played in Australia becoming a nation.

In what year did Australia become a nation? 1901

Who was Australia’s first prime minister? I don’t know

How did Federation impact on Indigenous people and Chinese migrants? Because they were rejected and couldn’t vote, have a say or have rights.

What do you know about the Eureka Stockade? The miners didn’t want to pay fees so they rebelled against the police. The miners burnt a hotel and people killed each other. It was in Ballarat during the gold rush.

What are some big events that happened between 1901 and 1960? In 1901 Australia became a nation, world war 1 happened between 1914-1918, world war 2 happened between 1940-1945.

Who were some important people between 1901 and 1960? Don Bradman who was a famous Australia cricketer.

“The climate today is rain,”said the news reporter. The rain is weather not climate. The climate is the average temperature throughout a year. Today a lady called Ceri who is a meteorologist and climatologist from the bureau of meteorology visited us. She talked to us about climate change. We were very lucky to have Ceri come in as we are learning about sustainability.

These are the things she confirmed for us as she knows the answers because she is an expert. Humans are the main cause of the co2 going and poking holes in the atmosphere. Other gases are contributing to climate change as well. Methane is a gase that comes from cows farting and that contributes to climate change. Since people keep farming cattle it means that there are more cows and that means more methane. Also CFC’s contribute but people don’t use them much anymore. But when they were used heaps they put a hole in the ozone. Global warming and climate change are real and are happening right now and there is evidence for it. She showed us lots of graphs and images showing evidence that climate change and global warming are happening. 97 out of 100 hundred scientists agree and have researched that climate change is happening now and is a problem because of what we are doing. Those 97 scientists have researched and have evidence and they all agree that it is happening.

Doing something so little can help a lot if we all do it. You can get solar panels, use wave power, wind turbines, turning of electronics when your not using them and not keeping heaters on if you don’t need them lots.